Hit the road for a "One-Tank Trip" around Southern Ontario.
Adventures worth the drive from the syndicated newspaper/web column by Jim Fox

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Saturday, June 23, 2018

Toe tapping summer music concerts hit the right note

One-Tank Trip for June 23/18

(c) By Jim Fox

The hills are alive
with the sound of music in “cottage country” and beyond.

From big annual
music festivals to summertime favourite haunts and hoe downs in a country barn,
there are plenty of options.

Boys of summer

California’s Beach
Boys embody the fun of summer as they return to Casino Rama Resort, near Orillia,
on July 20.

Headlining the
Canada Day Weekend on June 29 and 30 is Canadian rocker Burton Cummings, Bryan
Adams, July 4, Sarah McLachlan, July 5, Donny and Marie, July 12, 13, and Reba,
July 27, 28. casinorama.com

Burton Cummings
will rock the house at Casino Rama Resort.

Nearby is Burl’s
Creek, home of Boots and Hearts, “Canada’s largest country music festival.”

The event in
Oro-Medonte from Aug. 9 to 12 is headlined by Alan Jackson and Florida Georgia
Line. bootsandhearts.com

Rockin’ the barn

There’s plenty of toe-tapping, hand-clapping and down-home fun
at the Walters Dinner Theatre on the family homestead in Bright, between Woodstock
and Kitchener.

Walters Family Band. (Photo by Barbara Taylor)

The Walters Family Band kicked off the
season now featuring shows paying tribute to country and music entertainers,
with their return on Sept. 4 to 8 for Country Gospel.

Included are some “Good Vibrations – A
Celebration of the Beach Boys – from July 23 to 28.

There are matinee and evening performances through
Oct. 2, along with the pre-show country buffet with local favourite rolled ribs
and apple crisp. walterstheatre.com;
(519) 463-5559

The Walters family
entertains with country music and humour in their converted barn.

All
that jazz

Seal, Herbie Hancock, Savion Glover,
Bettye LaVette, Alison Krauss and Cecile McLorin Salvant are just a few of the
artists at the TD Toronto Jazz Festival on now through July 1.“From legendary artists to rising stars,
the lineup “includes names that will resonate with jazz lovers and music fans
of all ages,” said publicist Anna Tom.

There are about 150
free concerts while other performers include Holly Cole and guitarist Liona
Boyd paying homage to 1960’s folk music.

The TD Toronto Jazz
Festival offers more than 150 free concerts during its 10-day run.

The city is “transformed” as the sound
of jazz fills concert halls and the streets of Yorkville come alive, she added.
torontojazz.com

Thank you very much

The
Collingwood Elvis Festival, July 27 to 29, is a rockin’ good time at the “largest
event of its kind in the world paying tribute to the King of Rock and Roll.”

This event
celebrating the rock legend has dozens of tribute artists in concert, a parade,
gospel worship service, competitions and vendors. collingwoodelvisfestival.com

Gotta have a fiddle in the band

The toe tappin’
entertainment of the summer has to be the 68th Canadian Open Old Time Fiddle
Championship in Shelburne, north of Orangeville.

The event is part
of the Heritage Music Festival from Aug. 8 to 12 featuring a variety of
entertainers, said publicist Caroline Mach.

Performing will be
the Trews, the Beckett Family and Canada’s top fiddlers in competition.